Juvenile Justice

Firstpost special report: What India must do to end abuse of children

These are instances in which child abuse can be clearly connected to a collective failure of society.

Firstpost special report: How child labour has come to define crimes against children

In such cases, it is difficult to monitor working hours and the effect that such work on the child’s education.

Firstpost special report: Why India's juvenile justice system is fractured

Since 1986, successive legislations dealing with juvenile justice have dealt with two broad categories of children.

Long road to rehabilitation: Maharashtra juvenile justice system cuts pendency, but challenges remain

Maharashtra has reduced the pendency of cases before its juvenile justice boards (JJBs) by one-third in the past few years, but a lot remains to be done in the system, said Justice VM Kanade

The process of adoption has to be transparent. It should ensure welfare of the child: SC

The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre and states to frame requisite rules, regulations and guidelines under the new law to ensure welfare and interest of kids in case of their intra-country or inter-country adoption.

After juvenile bill, WCD Ministry to push for amendments to National Commission for Women Act

Buoyed by the passage of the Juvenile Justice Bill which had been stuck in Parliament for one-and-a-half years, the Women and Child Development Ministry now plans to push for amendments to the NCW Act to add more teeth to the body like powers to order arrest and penalise.

Delhi gangrape: Amends to Juvenile Justice Act need to come from a place of knowledge, not blood-thirst

let us outrage about all the other juveniles who should get a chance to reform and repair their lives. Let us outrage over the required amendment and hope that it comes from a place of knowledge and not bloodthirst.

Trying minors as adults for rape: Will amending Juvenile Justice Act deter crime?

The latest cabinet nod is for the proposal that empowers the Juvenile Justice Board to decide whether a juvenile above 16 years involved in heinous crimes is to be sent to a observation home or tried in a regular court to face trial like any other adult.

May as well release him now: Victim's distraught mother

Victim's mother says family will file appeal against verdict, expresses her disappointment at the justice system.

Delhi gangrape: Court completes recording evidence of prosecution witnesses

"Now the statements of the prosecution witness stands closed," the court said while fixing July 10 to begin recording of the statements of the accused who will explain the circumstances appearing in the evidence against them in response to queries put by the judge.